Simulation of Urban Area through Opus: Open Platform for Urban Simulation

Abstract — Many countries of the world are currently suffering problems caused by speedily growing populations in urban areas, and both governments and human being has a duty to find ways to overcome these problems. Over population of urban areas has an increasing frequent population problem. Overpopulation can lead to overcrowding and poor quality housing in many grows cities. So upcoming problems like land use, transportation, and other environment problem will be faced by urban planner in future. UrbanSim is more general software platform to support integrated modelling, and has been launched with international imposition to use it and also for further development under the Open Platform for Urban Simulation (Opus). Researchers can use it at starting level modelling system support for transportation, land, and environmental planning in metropolitan areas. In recent year some application has been developed over the system in U.S. cities and abroad